Connecticut · Nonprofit
BUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES INC
BUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,510 to it, the largest being HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ($43,724). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $81k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $90k
- Net assets
- $28k
What Building Healthy Families Inc does
Mission
The primary exempt purpose of Building Healthy Families is to promote the success of young children in school and in life. We do this by raising the capacity of their parents and other caregivers to provide the nurture required to support healthy brain development. We do this in four ways: The BrightStart Family Workshop is a free, 8-week experience for the whole family that happens on Saturday mornings during the Spring and Fall. It is staffed by community volunteers. We provide a community garden for families. We bring the Imagination Playground to town events that serve young children at no charge. Using the playground promotes social, cognitive, emotional and physical health for children. We provide Circle of Security Parenting groups to help parents build and support secure attachment with their children.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
BrightStart For Families Workshop In addition to what parents are taught, they and their children receive the following: Nutritious Meals. Breakfast and lunch are provided for participating families and volunteers. Resources. Parents receive: age appropriate children's books, a craft kit, toys, safety items, diapers, and other items supporting good nutrition and health (a cookbook emphasizing cooking from simple, nutritious and inexpensive ingredients, information about seasonal vegetables and fruit, etc.). We offer 'thank you' gifts to encourage attendance during and at the conclusion of the workshop. We also provide information about other available community resources. We have begun offering the Ages and Stages developmental s screening to families. Play and Learn. An enriched play and learning experience for children (age 2 through 8) using the Imagination Playground, arts and crafts, and story time. An infant and toddler nursery is provided for the youngest children. A dedicated, background checked, trained and supervised staff oversees the children's program. Community. We accept each family as they are and encourage their growth with love and support throughout the…
$37,117 spentof which $18,000 as grants57% of program spendingCommunity Garden - Families with young children participate in our community garden. The purpose of the community garden is to promote good nutrition and build community among families. We provide raised bed garden boxes, water tanks, gardening tools and supplies, instruction and mentoring, and play features at the garden so children can play while their parents tend to their garden. The grant was used to build a pavilion at the community garden.
$23,518 spentof which $19,497 as grants36% of program spendingCircle of Security Parenting Circle of Security is an internationally acclaimed, 8-week video-base curriculum that helps parents and care-givers build a secure attachment with their children. It is a relationship-based (rather than behavioral) parenting program. We began offering Circle of Security Parenting classes in 2016.
$1,331 spent2% of program spendingImagination Playground The Imagination Playground is an innovative play space that is comprised of large blue blocks that invite child-directed, creative play. It supports social, emotional, cognitive and motor skill development.
$2,867 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $64,833.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $20k to $40k (+104%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
99% of BUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Peter Tullson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $15k → $19k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 77% · 2019 55% · 2020 66% · 2021 66% · 2022 57% · 2023 63% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
55% of BUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $41k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $49k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES INC has grown faster than half of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like BUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES INC
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In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES INC?
- BUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,510 to it, the largest being HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ($43,724). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $89,510 in grants to BUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES INC?
- HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING is the largest funder on record, with $43,724 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing